It’s a grand understatement when Wendell Holmes says of himself and his sibling Sherman, “We have a great rapport and a great bond that a lot of brothers don’t have.”
The two brothers have been performing as a team for 45 years, which is pretty amazing when you consider that Sherman is a mere 61 and Wendell a spry 57.

Dismiss Monster Magnet at your peril. It’s certainly not difficult, but it’s unwise. The band might be all that rock and roll has left.
The five-piece New Jersey outfit has taken the Black Sabbath/Led Zeppelin torch that Soundgarden carried in the early 1990s and stripped the 1970s-style heavy metal of its grungier self-loathing and self-importance of the past decade.

The Hornucopia festival this weekend
in The District of Rock Island could
fall into a pattern of sameness – with
the requirement that all bands feature horns and with several outfits making repeat performances.

Giuseppe Verdi originally wrote only a portion of his Messa da Requiem (conceived to honor Rossini) with the hope that other composers would join in him in completing it, but the project never materialized.